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Shoutout to FirstSay.net

I've been getting a lot of hits from FirstSay.net lately, so I figured I'd give them a shot of GoogleJuice. I'm not sure who runs the site, but he/she must be nuts because they have had three or four of my posts on the front page. It's a pretty nifty web-based RSS aggregator, the only problem it's in PHP... arrgh! (psst.. the name of the platform you should be using is in the last 4 characters of your name...shh!) At any rate, it's a cool site, and a decent source of news from around the web. Lots of javascript going on too. Show the love... go check it out!
Posted: Jan 03 2004, 05:01 AM by interscape | with 6 comment(s)

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Russ C. said:

You think thats nasty? I need to dig out the source code to my Javascript RSS reader :)
# January 3, 2004 7:33 AM

Damian said:

If it works, why should it be in .NET ?

Stop being a technology bigot
# January 3, 2004 7:45 AM

Robert McLaws said:

Um... I reserve the right to be a technology bigot if I so choose.
# January 3, 2004 9:28 AM

Shannon J Hager said:

what exactly, is the problem with the site being in php? The "arrgh!" part definitely implies that it is causing you pain but I'm not sure why, the site seems fine here.
# January 3, 2004 12:35 PM

Steven Ericsson Zenith said:


The .net site is the development site currently. The released version is http://www.firstsay.com.

It is a combination of PHP and Postgres. First Say has not been publicly announced and is at alpha stage currently. It will be open source - though we have not picked a license yet.

It is a new project of myself and Phil Goldman (ex Apple, founder Web TV) who suddenly and tragically, died age 39, a week ago - see the MOTD at First Say for my account.

Phil would often refer me to Robert's comments.

We cache your feed and check for updates periodically. You can send me email directly to steven@pearavenue.com if you have questions.

Steven
# January 3, 2004 3:55 PM

Steven Ericsson Zenith said:


BTW. The site shows the most recently updated feeds in our database - or one selected by the user.

Some fine tuning is still needed in that area because some servers do not respond correctly to If-Modified-Since and/or do not include a Last-Modified time.

We were hoping to do a scan of RSS feeds without having to maintain state - which does not now seem possible.
# January 3, 2004 4:04 PM